Boyhood Quotes
67 Boyhood quotes by 61 unique authors
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No. No, first comes boyhood. You get to play with soldiers and spacemen, cowboys and ninjas, pirates and robots. But before you know it, all…
— Brian K. Vaughan
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If you're lucky enough to fall in love, that's one thing. Otherwise all that was ever truly beautiful to me was boyhood. It's the meal…
— Leon Uris
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When she looked at him now, she couldn't help thinking that the man he had become bore so little resemblance to the boy he had…
— Arundhati Roy
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Boys do not leave their boyhood behind when they leave off their school uniform.
— Diane Setterfield
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It is in the brain, and the brain only, that the great sins of the world take place also. You, Mr. Gray, you yourself, with…
— Oscar Wilde
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There was a saying that the strength of a man’s steel was only known under the hammer of circumstance. If anyone had asked me a…
— Alison Goodman
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It is a well-known fact that very often, putting the period of boyhood out of the argument, the older we grow the more cynical and…
— H. Rider Haggard
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In ordinary life, a mentor can guide a young man through various disciplines, helping to bring him out of boyhood into manhood; and that in…
— Robert Bly
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We have a strange illusion that mere time cancels sin. I have heard others, and I have heard myself, recounting cruelties and falsehoods committed in…
— C.S. Lewis
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No human being, past the thoughtless age of boyhood, will wantonly murder any creature which holds its life by the same tenure that he does.
— Henry David Thoreau
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Elements and birthdays have been intertwined for me since boyhood, when I learned about atomic numbers.
— Oliver Sacks
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Justice Harry A. Blackmun, a quirky but pivotal member of the Supreme Court for 24 years, was a hoarder. He seems to have kept everything…
— Cliff Sloan
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I worked on a farm. Played ball and loafed along the fishing and swimming holes of the White River, and my boyhood was not a…
— Chuck Klein
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I had absolute freedom to create things on my own and in silence. No rush, the artificial rush by media. Certainly no rush to grow…
— Barry Hannah
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Thinking back to boyhood days, I remember the bright sun on Harlem streets, the easy rhythms of black and brown bodies, the sounds of children…
— Walter Dean Myers
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My boyhood saw Greek islands floating over Harvard Square.
— Unknown Author
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I'm reliving every boyhood dream I ever had. I could pretty much die and go to heaven right now. A little part of me wants…
— Hugh Jackman
Who Wrote These Boyhood Quotes
61 authors contributed a total of 67 Boyhood Quotes, led by these top contributors: